Many revelations of God's ever-presence and all-power have come to me through the study of Christian Science. Loneliness has been dispelled by the true idea of Mind, through the knowledge that life and joy come from God and are not dependent upon material objects. Discouragement vanished with the realization that no trials or difficulties can hinder the expression of Truth and Love, and I have had more success in my work in consequence.
While on the subject of work I will tell of one incident in which Truth helped me. A colleague, through misunderstanding, hinted that I was not quite satisfactorily fulfilling a voluntary task. Though hardly conscious of the implied criticism at the time, by evening it disturbed me, and I felt aggrieved that I should have been doubted. I knew this to be an unhealthy state of mind and so began to study the Lesson-Sermon. Quickly I saw that I was wrong in accusing an individual of a belief in injustice, and felt quite happy in knowing that the real man could not be conscious of evil. In this way not a trace of resentment remained, for while enlarging my borders and recognizing all as in the divine Mind, God, I had found freedom. I know that The Christian Science Monitor is a power in the movement for universal peace and a most efficient pioneer in social reconstruction, for both of which aims I worked blindly before my knowledge of the remedy in Christian Science.
To name another instance of physical healing, a friend suffered very much from chilblains. I had not been troubled in this way since childhood, but as I did not follow our Leader's advice, "Treat a belief in sickness as you would sin, with sudden dismissal" (Science and Health, p. 218), the chilblains came on my hands as well as on one foot; but I gave them no definite treatment until they became painful. Then I was bestirred to realize that my mentality needed cleansing, and I felt no pain when I understood that in reality every part of man's being is sustained by God; that there is no stagnation, no unequal distribution in Mind. A week later not a disfiguring mark remained.
